Heinrich Joseph Wetzer

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Heinrich Joseph Wetzer (born March 19, 1801 in Anzefahr , in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel , † November 5, 1853 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German orientalist . With Benedikt Welte , he published the first edition of the Wetzer and Welte's Lexicon - Church Lexicon or Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology and its auxiliary sciences , for which he worked out the nomenclature and which he edited.

Life

Heinrich Joseph Wetzer studied theology and oriental languages ​​at the universities of Marburg (1820-1823), Tübingen (1823) and Freiburg (1824) and graduated as a doctor of theology and philosophy in Freiburg in 1824. His studies of Arabic, Persian and of Syriac he continued for eighteen months at the University of Paris , under the orientalists Silvestre de Sacy and Étienne Marc Quatremère . In doing so, he discovered an Arabic manuscript in the royal library of Paris, which contains the history of the Coptic Christians in Egypt from their origins to the fourteenth century.

From 1825 he researched the conflict between Arianism and the Catholic Church in the fourth century. However, only a small part of this research was completed and published in 1827 under the title Restitutio verae chronologiae rerum ex controversiis Arianis, inde from anno 325 usque ad annum 350 exortarum… 1827 in Frankfurt .

In 1828 he became associate professor, in 1830 university professor for oriental philology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1844 he anonymously published the book The University of Freiburg after its origins ... His interest in preserving the Catholic character of Freiburg, which was to be founded and developed as a Catholic university, led to its rejection by Protestant professors who held the majority of the chairs in 1846 and who were him by excluded from all academic offices. In 1850 he was appointed the main librarian of the university library.

Fonts

  • Restitutio verae chronologiae rerum ex controversiis Arianis inde from anno 325 usque ad annum 350 exortarum contra chronologiam Nodie receptam exhibita una cum Specimine historiae Coptorum . Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1827.
  • Taki-eddini Makrizii Historia Coptorum Christianorum in Aegypto Arabice . Johann Esaias von Seidel, Sulzbach 1828.
  • The University of Freiburg according to its origin, its purpose, its means and study foundation funds, its capacity as a spiritual corporation and pious foundation, its organization, its institutes, and according to the guarantees of its continued existence under canonical and constitutional law . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1844.
  • as editor (with Benedikt Welte): Church Lexicon or Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology and its auxiliary sciences , 12 volumes. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1847–1860.

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personal data
SURNAME Wetzer, Heinrich Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Anzefahr , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1853
Place of death Freiburg , Germany